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Six of India's last eight medallists at the Olympics are women.
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Cummins is so un-Australian. Climate change activist, took time out to read up about racism in an Oz context, took on Langer, is a bowling captain, prioritised family over a series in India et. al. Yet, he's so genetically Australian. On-field king of clutch.
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Seeing so many takes that Vinesh has secured legacy etc. etc. I kind of think she secured her legacy the day she decided to ensure young girls were walking into a safe environment.
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IPL never ceases to amaze with their irony. One team does stuff for green awareness while the tournament takes money from the biggest fossil fuel company ever. Another team does cancer awareness. Between overs, there is an ad for pan. Got to appreciate the irony lads.
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Truly truly terrible that Vidit can't defend his title because the PM wants to meet the gold medallists. Such a terrible example/precedent being set all over the place.
Aravindh @pawnof64squares Chithambaram is the last minute replacement of Vidit Gujrathi at 10th Vugar Gashimov Memorial - Chess Super Tournament. The reigning champion and the new Olympiad Gold medalist, Vidit was scheduled to defend his crown. He arrived in Baku but then had to
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A little Brazilian girl went viral on social media in 2015 after she landed a heel flip while wearing a fancy dress. Six years later, at 13, Rayssa Leal is the new Olympic silver medallist. Skateboarding is a great addiction.
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Gajewski and Paddy Upton look on as Gukesh addresses the PC.
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Seeing a few takes that govt sent her to Paris so nobody complain. In March, she won India's quota place in the women's 50kg in domestic trials. In April, she reached the final of the Asian Olympic qualifying meet. "Nobody sent her to Paris". She met the eligibility criteria.
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Forget, Chennai. I don't even remember an Indian city that has been this festive, being bathed in this much enthusiasm and expecting before a big sporting event. 100% football WC host city vibes.
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This is a very sad way to maintain a stadium. One whole stand at Nungambakkam's SDAT tennis stadium is filled with what looks like bird poop and other solidified debris.
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A hospital setting up a twitter account to ask for oxygen. Truly fucked up.
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A readymade six-hitting, spin-hitting batter who's comfortable against high pace is not travelling to the World Cup. #JustIndiaCricketThings.
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Just opened to check for tickets in Ahmedabad. And stands are named after those noted cricketing personalities Adani and Reliance.
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Find yourself someone who will wait for you the way these people have been waiting for MSD the last one hour.
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Looks like some toolkit has gone out to certain former India cricketers asking them to tweet about Kohli's lack of runs?.
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Just heard that a few channels have literally knocked on his door to get the reaction of his parents. Well, fucking done. TV journalism is in danger of eating itself alive.
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Now that the Olympics is over, let me tell the story of Belgium’s hockey gold. It began in 2005 when Marc Coudron took as chief of the hockey federation there.
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Lot of wonderful @chetrisunil11 tributes. Imo, he did something greater during India's Delta wave in 2021. He handed over control of his handle to a journalist to spread Covid-related info. O2 beds, ICUs, what to do if you were +ve, vaccination. Enjoy retirement, sir.
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Bishop on comms while Shubman is perfect. It's like a proud dad speaking about his crazily talented kid.
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Marcus Rashford has literally just shamed the British government into feeding hungry school kids. NEVER EVER ask athletes to stick to sports.
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Remember when the Indian Under-17 football beat a random assortment of kids from the lower tiers of the Italian league. That was repackaged as India U-17 d. Italy U-17. And more than a few people lost their shit for a few hours before they realised what had happened.
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Incredible scenes. The toss for the Test is delayed because the two Prime Ministers are going around in a golden chariot like vehicle.
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TW: sexual harassment. How did women getting groped during an AR Rahman concert become a movement to stand in support of. Rahman ffs?.
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That is the sound of a lot of netas in UP and Delhi crying in unison, shedding tears of disgust. Nicely, Vinesh.
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You train over 3yrs 10months for a two week event and then you lose out because you were 2.4cms short? Maintain that there's only few things as brutal, unforgiving and, to an extent, as random, as elite sport.
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No way should a man look this handsome, be a goat bowler AND be doing this now. Unfair to all the other men imo.
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Neesham is dead inside and Kane is like 'lol, bunch of kids, this lot'.
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The way US athletes have rallied around a cause is so, so great to watch. It's also a constant reminder of the head in the sand attitude practiced by their Indian counterparts. Here's a thread nobody asked for.
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Final thing. Hima Das, over 200m this year, is the 125th fastest woman this year. Across 400m, she is 74th. Kindly hold on to those 'she is a sureshot Olympic gold contender' pieces for a bit longer. If anything, that's bound to put undue pressure on her. She is NOT AT THAT LEVEL.
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A woman shows that she's in solidarity with the Palestine people where babies continue to be slaughtered. The Indian right -- an utterly rabid being -- wants to "call it out". Others are hoping action is taken against Rohit because the woman who posted this happens to be his wife.
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This crowd called an *Indian* player aside and chanted JSR during a Test earlier this year. So why are people surprised about this? This is who we are as a society now.
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Just penning down the sacrifices of a few of the players the last few months. Tyagi's must be up there.
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This absolutely gorgeous piece of architecture exists at Motera. (@kaushik_cb doing the honours).
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Absolute nothing that's happening in this country should be surprising. Yet, you wake up to a new low every day.
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Truly fucked when we have decided to fight a respiratory disease by. bursting crackers.
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With a month to go for the World Cup, I asked my rockstar sister permission to write about the month from hell our family had in March 2011. TW: people who have lost a kid soon after pregnancy. Unsurprisingly, the hardest thing I have written in my career.
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Manu Bhaker becomes independent India's first double medallist at a single Olympics. First since Norman Pritchard at the 1900 Games. Staggering achivement. Even before you take into account what all went into her Tokyo Games before, during and after.
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Just realised that Syria's flagbearer is Hend Zaza. She is 12 years old.
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@kartik_kannan @Sporty_Baba Or maybe stop catering to Indian fans sat on the sofa back home in India. Start putting games in primetime of the host country. Just a thought but maybe too radical for the ICC.
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Chennai's average rainfall is 140-150 cms. It has received almost a third of it in the last 36 hours. Save your political posturing for a later date. If you are on here, post essential resources. Thanks.
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Graham Reid has quite the CV. Oil, gas industry.Credit industry.Mining industry .Organisational change.Information technology . Left it for going into coaching in 2008 when Charlesworth called. It was Charlesworth who pushed him to take the India gig in 2019. Now. Bronze winner
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One journalist who has really done a lot to disprove the 'alls well in UP, Bihar' myth has been @jyotiyadaav. No wonder then that the IT Cell has made their first move.
The Print journo @jyotiyadaav who is in Bihar&UP indiscriminately reporting against govts is accused of misbehaviour wid Bihar's #DMCH medical staff,indulging in spreading incorrect info & misleading public.Time 2 expose her 4 bias reporting.Her hatred 4 @BJP4India is nt hidden
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Glenn Maxwell had gone to the leadership and requested for a "mental and physical break". Remains in contention to feature if needed going forward this season. An honest pc. You don't see that many times from elite cricketers.
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@TimesNow @YUVSTRONG12 Here. From the ICC"s rule book. Now stop this idiotic, insane and inane narrative.
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Thanks to this very fine gentleman. PS: dad, you have my number. You have got to stop doing this.
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Another press conference today where an India player replies in Hindi, journalists asks questions in Hindi and the exercise is so so normalised without there being any translators. I long for a day when I can ask an athlete one question in Tamil.
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Don't know if am watching Star Sports or Lok Sabha TV.
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Some silver lining. Oxford Uni study has found that AZ (Covishield) does work well against the Indian variant. Spread this in all your groups. Do videos if need be. Cc: @ashwinravi99
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There are people defending Sony while one of their channels are showing WWE Blockbuster. They are actually not showing Simone Biles. Don't be these people 🤡🤡🤡.
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My entire TL has such lovely wholesome threads about SPB. Either stories or songs that defined him over the last decades. Go well in the knowledge that your legacy is safe and secure. We ll most definitely pass it on to future generations.
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It's so staggering and impactful to see the English football captain telling their racist and vile fans 'we don't want you'. If only people within the Indian cricketing establishment had stood up for Jaffer in this way. Sigh.
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Losing one grandparent is heartbreaking. Losing two, both of whom largely responsible for me going through kg to school to college, in two and a months? How do you make peace?.
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This generation of writers, fans, pundits and players created a major disservice by spreading this narrative of Messi v. Ronaldo. This last 25 days have again showed why he has been out on his own, all alone, as the best the world has seen. At least this century.
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Hima Das' five gold medals at random meets in Poland and Czech Republic is a bit like that. The quality of the meets, for want of a better phrase, are glorified Sunday leaguers. Her competition was so poor not winning them would have caused a meltdown.
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One thing I really hope to see is this coalition govt. nixing any sort of bid for the 2036 Olympics. The last thing this country needs is an ill-advised, nothing but a false sense of prestige-building exercise of spending easily more than $10bn in hosting it. 1/2.
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If Cong+ was 75 and BJP was 114, this election would have been declared over, Rahul Gandhi declared a loser, Arnab breaking open a laddoo box and Times Now blushing crimson red. Just because. .
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Sure, support her. But first think about it. Elite athletes DON'T EVER take part in five meets in three weeks. These are mickey mouse meets. Don't get swayed by nationalistic bs just because there is a smiling athlete with the flag.
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You enter a wrong password twice by mistake. You don't post a violent, hate-filled cartoon by mistake. If this was any other country, guy would be sacked and asked to undergo reformation training or something. Here probably would be given an election ticket whenever he's ready.
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Here's 1900 words on why IPL will lift the mood music of the country. With help from @cricketaakash, @divya_sportpsyc, Shyam Balasubramanian and @StarSports. Contains stuff like increase in TV sets in the 80s, SRT reax after 26/11 et. al.
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I don't want to give that sting operation any more publicity but just want to say this. Elite athletes taking pain-killing injections is *very* common. And, no, they do not come under anti-doping nonsense. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
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Feels borderline illegal to listen to this without paying.
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@TimesNow @YUVSTRONG12 You want to know why? ICC have a rule prohibiting players against display of political statements on clothing during an international match.
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Kohli doing what a million Indians want to do their elected local MPs. Abuse them in front of camera for not fixing the street light. Bad roads. Flooded streets. Fairplay.
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Rs 16.25 cr for Stokes. So, roughly 14.5 cr for the name and 1.75cr for his T20 skillset.
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People have been stood in the queue for more than 5 hours. A person has just fainted. Whose bright idea was it to get all e ticket holders to congregate in one place to get physical ticket copies?.
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Think of the no of public access swimming pools and gymnasiums you could build with $2mn. The first step towards a sporting culture isn't to give the guy who won gold money. The first step to a sporting culture is to build street corner infrastructure.
Indian companies and state governments have promised cash and gifts worth more than two million dollars to javelin star #NeerajChopra after he won India's first ever #Olympics athletics gold medal #Tokyo2020 #AFPSports
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This was them with the World Cup back in Brussels. Imagine how many kids and families they will have inspired. They have another parade planned today or tomorrow. Fin.
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Please do not try and rationalise the stance taken by your sporting heroes today. It's possible to stay zipped, or better, support the oppressed. If Shubman Gill, a 21-year-old, can do it, so can the bloke who owns most cricketing records.
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You literally have to walk on faeces to access the stand where you are greeted to a mass of poop.
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Your daily reminder: While the BCCI tries to save its flagship gravy train for a second time this year, the BCCI haven't paid SCORES of domestic umpires, scorers and players since the pandemic began. That's 15+ months.
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After his gold in Rio, I had the privilege of writing Mariyappan's story for the paper. It was, and still is, at some level, one of the most surreal I had heard.
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A picture from the felicitation function. I'm not quite sure if it's to felicitate the winners or to felicitate Modi.
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It's possible to make more than an argument that in over 120 years of organised sport that Indians have been part of, nobody has had a week like this. Go well, Manu. Three Olympic finals. Two podiums. A lifetime of memories and shutting down the haters after 2021.
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Fairplay to Steve Smith because he's playing the system but it's very evident Carey has been asked to whip the bails every time the ball beats the bat. Smith straightaway asks the square leg umpire and they invariably get a free review. Has happened 4-5 times already in this Test.
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Want to know her REAL level? First, see if she qualifies for the Worlds and Olympics (not through rankings but by time). Then, she if she is able to progress past her heats and get into the semifinal and final.
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My player of the WC - Rohit Sharma. Since 2022, he's striking like Afridi while averaging like ABD. An ODI cheat code. Most captains build the team in their own image. Rohit, the captain, has rebuilt Rohit, the batter, in the image of the captain.
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Several Chennai hospitals refused to take a person who needed emergency care last night. They needed a negative RT-PCR test. They took a test in the night. Before the test result came back -- negative -- this person passed away. Please take a test as soon as you are home.
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Fairplay for registering one of the great upsets. Lest we forget, they were treated poorly in the last 5 yrs. They had Marijne earlier, then asked him to manage the men after decent results with the women then sent him back to coach the women after poor performances with the men.
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#Chennai A group, Relief Riders, have started door delivery of essentials and OTC medicines to isolating Covid + persons. They have two doctors with them to verify requests by persons. They plan to start food delivery in the coming days. Ph 9884089770. Verified.
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Lemme tell you about Gabby Thomas. She went to Harvard to study neurobiology. She is now at University of Texas at Austin pursuing epidemiology. The latest bronze medal winner in the women's 200m is the "world's fastest epidemiologist."
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A last point. Yesterday's 400m was an all-Indian final. If you don't understand the level of competition from this one fact, you never will. Apologies for the spam.
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Cannot stress this more. Call 108, they will take you to a govt hospital. Please shed any inhibitions you have of them. They are clean and have really good facilities.
#Chennai folks: Beds in private hospitals are almost full and it is becoming quite difficult to get beds. Suggest patients be taken to Govt Hospitals, they have a lot more beds than private, clean and good facilities as well.
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Neeraj is going to regret winning gold at this rate. This level of simping. is so deeply uncomfortable.
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Mirabai hasn't been home for many months. In the last few years, she has been home for a few days. Yet, the sports ministry have a felicitation function at 9.00 pm the day she lands from Tokyo. What's the hurry man. Send her home. Let her rest. The photo ops can wait.
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If you subscribed to The Hindu and sportstar, chances are you grew up reading S Dinakar's pieces on all cricket. Tamil Nadu, national, international, World Cup, Tests, ODIs. RIP.
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A passionate man, he wanted the team to win, however long it took. Challenge was real. They hadn’t been to the Olympics since 1976. And no winning culture. Starting from scratch.
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Paaru mama, vellila dhan pogum. Ashwin has reduced this to gully cricket. Amazing, all for this.
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